Ferrule Puller Quotes & Sayings

What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable. — Gladys M. Hunt

Facts were never the enemy. — Lee Burvine

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness. — Mardy Grothe

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves. — Saul Bellow

Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend. — Sarah Palin

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. — George Gershwin

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. — Albert Einstein

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya